New family of wireline measurement services
The new Scanner family of wireline measurement services promises to deliver more simultaneous radial measurements-in true 3D-at multiple depths of investigation to help users characterize the subsurface environment and understand reservoirs.
The first three services available are the sonic Scanner advanced acoustic scanning platform; the Rt Scanner multiarray triaxial induction tool; and the MR Scanner next-generation wireline nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) logging tool.
Sonic Scanner uses the latest technology for advanced acoustic acquisition, including cross dipole and multispaced-monopole measurements. In addition to axial and azimuthal measurements, the tool makes a radial measurement with typical depths of investigation equal to two to three times borehole diameter.
The Rt Scanner provides direct measurements to evaluate the vertical and horizontal resistivity around the wellbore, as well as the dip and azimuth of the formation-in true 3D. From these measurements, a reservoir model, and hence reserves estimates, can be built from the enhanced hydrocarbon and water saturation estimations in laminated, anisotropic, or faulted formations.
The MR Scanner provides NMR measurements to help resolve petrophysical challenges in a variety of environments, including unknown or varying salinities, low-resistivity or low-contrast pay zones, and-or thin beds. This is made possible using a single pass with multiple depths of investigation.
Source: Schlumberger Oilfield Services, 300 Schlumberger Drive, Sugar Land, TX 77478.
New E&P data access system
New next-generation IHS Enerdeq allows energy professionals to browse, map, and analyze a resource base of E&P data on-demand over the Internet in a single integrated view, enabling faster and broader studies of existing or potential E&P assets.
The data access and integration platform, ultimately distributing global information to customers in the manner that best suits their needs, ranges from “smart client” desktop to browser and web services-based delivery. Data subscribers can:
• Access more than 3 million wells and 2 million production entities, including the current data, via Internet Explorer.
• Get proactive e-mail notification of new data in their area of interest, helping reduce the risk of key data being omitted in base map construction, geological interpretation, and other critical analysis
• Retrieve and report on well and production data in an integrated fashion, using text-based and interactive spatial queries.
Source: IHS Energy, 5333 Westheimer Rd., Suite 100, Houston, TX 77056.